week 2

[vicedirector]

seven vices week 2 34 players remaining ♫ monday - thursday Monday morning begins just like the rest, slow and uneasy. At 12pm, every television will go off with its usual bout of static, followed by a calm, albeit disinterested, voice. "Please gather in the hotel lobby within the next hour." That's all that it says before the televisions turn off. Anyone not in their rooms will hear the voice echoing around them as if through a speaker system, although there are (still) no speakers present. After hearing the motive, characters who choose to explore will find that the void around the town has retracted a bit, and there is now a general store on the other side of the hotel. On the chapel wall near the altar, black and white portraits of Takao and Kaguya have been hung up. Anyone paying attention to the town's unchanging layout will also notice that Takao's rickshaw, large and omnipresent as it was, is now nowhere to be seen. >Mingle? This is Week 1's mingle log, covering Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. Investigations will go up on Friday. When posting toplevels, specify the time and location. If you plan on having any private conversations between characters, remember to let us know in the post linked below. More plot elements will be introduced this week. Mod comments will be occasionally distributed to open toplevels, accordingly. cast setting rulebook profiles private conversations

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[okuri]

[ Even Yoite can't ignore shouting as loud as this. He'd been up wandering (mostly restless energy due to the paranoia) when he recognizes one voice in particular.

He practically jumps out from the shadows with an agility he's had little incentive to use until now. While he doesn't quite know what's going on, the tension is something he recognizes easily enough.]

Stop.

[dhaosu]

...

[ Fixing Clover a look, and then, Vegeta a glare for his comment, because how dare he speak to him like that, but he doesn't say nary a word since Yoite came in to say something like that. He just crosses his arms. ]

[fourleafcleaver]

[She isn't even noticing the look Dhaos is giving her because she's busy trying to grab her weapon back from Vegeta. At least she isn't...too much shorter than him??? Or at least not in her heels, she's trying.]

Hey! Hey, hell no, I'm not going back anywhere unarmed! Give that—

[WHERE THE HELL DID YOITE COME FROM NOW SHE'S SCREAMING AND BACKPEDALING AGAIN]

[keepshispride]

[Vegeta holds the bottle out of Clover's reach, and even if she could grab onto it she'd have a hard time yanking it out of his vice-like grip.]

I'll walk you back to your room. [They're on the same floor anyway.] Calm down already! You're acting like a child!

[He sneers over his shoulder at Yoite briefly, but otherwise doesn't respond much. This is getting into a little too large of a gathering for his tastes... What if the three of them are trying to lure him into a trap...]

[okuri]

[Yoite just stares blankly as Clover screams, it's not the first time someones reacted to him like that.]

Are you OK? [ At Dhaos-- likewise, Yoite has nothing to say to Vegeta, though he does try to keep an eye on him.]

[dhaosu]

[ Dhaos disapproves further for the look Vegeta is giving Yoite, but perhaps luckily his distraction is taken from the other two screaming people to focus on the question. He is a bit more calm now, but the urge to rub his temples is strong. ]

Mm... I shall thankfully live. It is merely headache-inducing, although I apologize that it seemed to rise to this point, and that you had to deal with this foolishness.

[okuri]

It was loud, even to me. [ But he doesn't seem annoyed by it at all. If anything he's thankful that he can still rely on his hearing for some things.]

What did she try to do? [ He had arrived too late to make much sense of it, other than the yelling.]

[dhaosu]

[ He hopes it doesn't mean Clover and Vegeta screaming didn't wake anyone up. ]

I am not sure in its entirety. However, she seemed voltile and suspicious enough, since she tossed an item at myself for just being in the vicinity. Therefore I concluded she may have been plotting something due to her additional suspicious reactions.

[ But he's just about done now. Vegeta can handle the girl calling him Rapunzel and figure out he was in the right. ]

[okuri]

I don't think she would be that obvious. [ But maybe he's setting the bar too high.]

[dhaosu]

...Perhaps not.

[ Probably. He sighs. ]

At the very least, trouble was prevented, and in this case, I believe truly something good must come of this in some manner.

[ Otherwise, he will feel like an entire fool. Still, though, before he goes off to his own room-- ]

I at least do give my thanks for your intervention, Yoite. It did make a difference for you to step in yourself, and with that, I also do believe it is time to bid you good night.

[okuri]

[ He tilts his head, a bit confused by Dhaos' words, but not because he wasn't able to hear it.

Regardless he nods.]

Good night.

[fourleafcleaver]

[She needs an extra moment to reorient herself after Yoite's sudden appearance, but now that the two of them are off doing whatever it is they're doing, which isn't trying to murder her and that's enough right now:]

Hell no you won't! How am I supposed to be sure you aren't plotting something?! [JUMPING UP AND DOWN FOR THE BOTTLE she's so small, this is an entirely futile effort] I'm not gonna be your easy victim either, give that back!

[keepshispride]

If I wanted you dead, girl, you'd be dead!

[But tbh he approves of this horrible paranoia in a way. Yes, be careful and suspicious, Clover, nothing like Sisuca. Though he's still not giving her the bottle.]

Anyway, if I did kill you now I'd have to kill those two as well. Trust me, you are not worth the effort.

[fourleafcleaver]

And that's why you're waiting until you have me alone! So you've only got one murder to cover up! [LEAPING CONTINUES, she's doing a pretty impressive job of it considering how impractical her heels are actually, even if her efforts continue to be useless.] I'm not stupid!

[keepshispride]

Then why are you wandering around in the middle of the night? [Vegeta, you were doing that too...]

If you want to get attacked, that's your own business. But I'm not sticking around to protect you again.

[He continues to be immune to leaping, despite only being a few inches taller than her. SORRY, CLOVER]

[fourleafcleaver]

I wanted food! I thought everyone else would be asleep and that Rapunzel over there [FLINGING ARM GESTURE TOWARDS DHAOS] wasn't gonna try killing me! But I was armed and so he didn't [JUMP JUMP REACH THE WORLD IS SO UNFAIR] so give that back!

[keepshispride]

At least get a real weapon! [Sneers.] What a pathetic display. Your shoes are more intimidating than this thing!

[fourleafcleaver]

They totally are [her shoes are great okay] but I'm not exactly brimming with options over here!

[keepshispride]

Here's one. [Points at the stairs.] Go to your room and don't leave before morning.

[fourleafcleaver]

That's not what I meant and you know it! [SHE'S STILL DOING THE LEAPING THING she's nothing if not persistent]

[keepshispride]

[Okay, how about this? What if he tosses the bottle aside, grabs Clover by the back of her collar and then lifts her off the ground.]

Too late.

[fourleafcleaver]

[SHE'S NOT A KITTEN]

LET ME GO WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PUT ME DOWN RIGHT NOW DON'T KILL ME LET GO OF ME PUT ME DOWN WHAT THE HELL [WORDLESS SHRIEKING FEATURING AS MUCH FLAILING AS POSSIBLE, and you thought she couldn't get any louder]

[keepshispride]

[And now they're having a real screaming match.]

STOP SCREAMING OR I WILL KILL YOU!

[TRYING TO IGNORE THE FLAILING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE and heading towards the staircase. He'll just glare at Dhaos and Yoite if they pass them, daring them to say anything as he carries Clover up the stairs.]

[fourleafcleaver]

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO IF YOU TRY A GODDAMN THING YOU'RE GOING TO GET SO CAUGHT LET ME GO LET ME GO [BACK TO THE WORDLESS SHRIEKING

this is definitely happening right now]

[keepshispride]

[STOMPING UP THE STAIRS they're going to wake the whole damn hotel at this rate. Good thing the bedrooms are all soundproof.]

THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN DAMN GOOD, BRAT! I SHOULD THROW YOU OFF THE ROOF INTO THAT VOID FOR THIS!

[Reassuring. Fucking hell somewhere Kurisu is getting killed.]